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Samsung Develops Marathon Fuel Cell
Samsung expects to release the new fuel cell for mass production by the end of 2007, and has begun research on a second, smaller fuel cell that can use only a coffee ...
New Wiki Search Engine Underway
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales writes on the Wikia Web site: “Social change has accelerated beyond the original Wikipedia concept of six years ago.” People, he says, are rapidly adopting new conventions for ...
Gartner Predicts the Blogosphere’s Future
December 15, 2006 11:00AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.cio.us Gartner’s new report about blogging predicts that today’s overexuberance will give way to a steady set of some 30 million bloggers around the ...
Microsoft’s Open XML Now a Standard
December 8, 2006 9:54AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.cio.us Microsoft has been pushing hard to get the Open XML format approved as a standard, particularly in light of decisions by members of ...
An E-Mail Registry for Sex Offenders?
December 8, 2006 12:02PM Digg It! Bookmark to del.cio.us News of a new bill — sponsored by Charles E. Schumer (D.-NY) and John McCain (R.-AZ) — to require sex offenders to register ...
ICANN Rejects ‘.travel’ Search Plan
December 1, 2006 7:52AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.cio.us As proposed by Tralliance, users who type a “.travel” name that does not exist would get a Web page inviting them to register ...
Spam Levels Up by 80 Percent
As vendors come up with new techniques, spammers do, too. Image spam began popping up a few months ago, and security vendors responded with products that create a “fingerprint” of the message ...
China Abandons Wikipedia Censorship
The Chinese likely lifted the ban on Wikipedia not to look more permissive in the eyes of the world, but to give its citizens access to more information that will give them ...
Stopping Today’s PC Spies at the Gate
“If you want to avoid spyware, there are certain parts of the Web you should stay away from,” says Dave Cole, director of Symantec Security Response. “They’re the dark alleys of the ...
Microsoft and Novell Enter Landmark Linux Partnership
The new deal between Microsoft and Novell is being hailed as a historic agreement that could have major implications for Linux and other open-source software. If all goes according to plan, Microsoft ...